Yes, I had a sneaking hunch that I wasn't going to get too far.
These issues are so important that I want to ask them and to put them in front of you. I appreciate the answer you gave and I won't go any further on it. It gets into the political realm after that, and I respect that. Thank you for answering as fulsomely as you could.
My experience with CIDA, especially in Africa, is that they're either beloved or loathed. Sometimes it's just like, “Thank God that CIDA's there, and here's what they're doing for us”, and other times it's just a rolling of the eyes and no sense of the focus. It has been raised in the report, and we've had this before on numerous occasions, and our chair always makes sure we raise this when it's pertinent. Since 2000 we've had five different ministers and four different agency presidents, you being the fourth.
Again, I know you can't speak to the appointments process—we've had that bite elsewhere—but I do want to ask you this. How much of an impact has it on CIDA when the top of the house, both at the president's office level, yourself, and at the minister's office, keeps changing all the time, and new people bring new priorities? So for those areas of the world that roll their eyes when they hear “CIDA”, just how much of the lack of consistent leadership at the ministerial and at the president's level has affected all of this, in your opinion?